Interrupted Games: Pascal, Hamlet, Probability.
The article explores the disparate contributions of writers William Shakespeare and Blaise Pascal as distinctive expressions of to a shared crisis of existence and knowledge. Topics include the communication between the Shakesperean gambit in "Hamlet" and the Pascalian analysis of wagers and gamblin...
| Publicado en: | Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation) Vol. 43; pp. 179 - 208 |
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Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation
2015
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| Sumario: | The article explores the disparate contributions of writers William Shakespeare and Blaise Pascal as distinctive expressions of to a shared crisis of existence and knowledge. Topics include the communication between the Shakesperean gambit in "Hamlet" and the Pascalian analysis of wagers and gambling, and the fundamental skepticism as to whether knowledge can ever be unambiguously ascertained. |
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